The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1887-07-16
MICROBES AND MITES.
WHAT A MlcRoscopIsT HAS TO SAY
OF THE LITTLE iNvIslBLEs.

he Is Sltcptical About the Alleged Nil
crobcs of Disease-An Experiment with
Raw Mcat-Dangcr in Uncookcd Pork.
Tape Worm.
"Now, you see," said DIR. Schacffer, the
microscopic, rs he held before reporters
eyes little piece of red something lc had
taken from bottle of alcohol. "You sec, il
the cannibals had eaten him hc would have
killed the whole tribe. But it was not tho
trichinosis that killed him. He died from
some other cause" Tho thing held in tho
doctors hand was n piece of the diaphragm
OF man who died ut the insane asylum, and
1T was completely filled with trchine. They
could be easily seen with the naked eye.
On table stood that inquisitivc little in
strument with which scientists discover
microbes, bacteria, infusoria, fungi and all
those death dealing invisibles before which
human nature stands in ave. Tho reporter
learned that upon tho glass sldo under this
little Instrument there might be assembled in
full war paint enough microbes to infest q
large city, and he stepped back little from
tho table, Then WHEN lie thought that science
has discovered that sugar, water, meat.
cheese, tea. coffee and even flour were vehicles
in which these terrible little creatures l,vo
free passage into the blood of their human
victims. the reporter decided to forswcar all
food until congress had passed law for tho
determination Of microbes.
The doctor is i'll constant intercourse with
these little terrors and gets into their secrets.
llo studies their habits and is familiar with
their mode of Thought. IIo is OH terms of
easy familiarity with them.
MILLIONS OF MITES.
as it really very dangerous to cnt bread
and sugar, or to drink water!" the scribe
asked him,
mites are sometimes found in sugar
They are all dead i'll refined sugar They
live only i'll sugar that has not been refined" )"
was the reply. "ln refined sugar YOU eat
their dead bodies. They are often dread
fully mutlatcd by the refining process.
Arms, legs, heads and trunks arc scattered
III all directions AS to their hurting YOU.
let ne say, | will cat just as many mites rs
you will bring along. 1t would take many
millions to mako IL good meal am very
skeptical about the alleged microbes of dis
ease. For that reason have not much faith
i'll Pastcur. fail to find this minute life in
fresh fruit, vegetables, meat, WATER flour ol.
anything of that sort. They come with de-
cay. Tho life that is found in urclinctl
sugar is 10 more injurious to tho human body
than are the little shippers that arc found in
cheese. Lmburger and other "hgh" chcescs
abound i'll microbes produced by partial de-
cay. hut they are harmless. do not thinl,
these things develop in and remain in tho
human body. | do not think they aro con-
structcd for that.
"iou may remember" said the doctor,
that learned gentleman of my profession
allowed some water to stay Oh raw meat in
the sun for two days, until it had begun to
decay and was full of bacteria. He then
drank it to see if tho lnc:cria would get into
his blood. Then ut certain periods he took
drops of his blood and examined it under the
microscropc. AT first he found ono microbc
in the blood, then two and then more, etc, so
he came to the conclusion that they went Mt
once into the blood after teing taken into tho
stomach.
"l'nt this was not conclusive To test it still
further l tried the experiment. | have a
strong stomach. ] drank water prepared in
the same way, and in which there were many
thousand million bacteria. AT no time did
any of them pass into my blood | fear not
the deadly microlDe
TRICIIN7s AND TAPE WORM.
"fhcrc is nothing in fresh food and fresh
water. The life that is found in the water is
not injurious. Stale water and dccnyed food
are bad. These microbes are vegetable, not
animal life With trichinM it is different.
They live naturally upon the animal organ-
ism. Raw pork isu thing to be Stunned.
The chances are that there urc triclina. in
any piece of pork yom may come across A
vnst number of hogs have trichinosis The
hog is Il terrible breeder Of disease. Besides
being responsible for trcinosis, it distributes
tape worms. 1t is n great crime for butchers
to sell pork that has been fed on the ofra of q
slaughter house. as have seen done in this
district. 1t is spreading disease, Just rs
farmer would spread thistlcs if he sowcd them
with his wheat. They eat small PARTICLES Of
tape worms from the entrais of other ami
mails, and the eggs develop very rapidly, and
nay be planted in the human body hy tho
eating Of the hog flesh.
"From two joints Of thTe worm havo
seen under the glass myriads of the eggs
flowing out. / handle most any poisonous
thing without fear, but am always careful
to wash my hands in alcohol or carbolc acid
after handling any part of Il tape worm.
These are the things that belong with animal
life and are to he dreaded. Thcre is nothing
to fear from microbes, that scientists speak
OF in fruit, flour and sugar, etc.
~ have formerly drank water out of the
canal would not do it now, hut it would
not he the ordinary impurities in water that
would deter me. Tho ordinary slop or filth
that might be thrown into the river may DO
very disgusting, but there would not neces-
sar:ly any disease come from it. Disease
woul'l result only from diseased matter.
Typhoid fever might he spread through tho
wat'r if the slols from the sick room, con-
tanning. the germs of the fever, were thrown
into the water. No one knows how many
miles of water it would take to wash it away.
1t would he as if you threw millions Of fish
eggs i'll the river above the nqucduct. The
chances would be that some of them would
fin'i their way through the water pipes into
some ones drinking glass.
But, to sum up, microbes are not found in
fresh food, and they aren't such terrible
things anyhow."